Blackbear

Oog

After a long and cold night, Oog the caveman does a discovery that will change history forever.

Literalité: A Breakdown in Five Parts

Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht, this film explores what his style of theatre might look like on film.

Three Mirrors Creature's Flashes of Flesh

In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes pervaded by a sensory spirit and undertakes a purifying voyage.

The Starlings

Shadow plays flicker, birds call, and colour leaks into grey walls. In Starlings, live action collides with puppetry and poetic visuals as a teen girl transforms loss into light, reviving the fractured bond with her father through the fragile power of art.

Green Bay

Set beneath a surreal green sky on a distant, crumbling world, the film captures the last survivors of a dying civilization—women who perform a synchronized ritual dance to summon an ethereal extraterrestrial presence from another realm.

LIFE

Cinemaker

Two children are directed by a cinemaker.

Eu Ainda Sinto Falta de Muita Coisa

Mountainous images accompanied by the song "Suzanne" by Leonard Cohen.

They'll Be Calling

A debt-settlement meeting turns into a surreal nightmare of ego, sexism, and chaos.

Work Without Mistakes

The desire to grow closer to yourself will lead you to disappear. The simple desire to get a closer look at yourself makes you see yourself disappear. The possibilities of recording are limited.

AVE MARA. Ignosce mihi et ama.

Mara—the spirit of the night, the weaver of darkened dreams—pressed upon my chest as sleep held me captive. My memory. In the haze of a dream, I saw those I loved, their faces bathed in an otherworldly glow. The nightmare was not the shadows nor the fear they whispered, but the cruel certainty of waking—of losing them to the morning light

I Want a Love That Hungers for Me, But Not for My Body

Guided by the recitation of a poem, the story of a couple transforms into an intimate ritual where desire, love, and cannibalism become intertwined.

3IRTH

Martha & Haroldo: An Essay on Living

A sensitive study on human relationships and the passage of time. Through the lens of directing and editing, the film observes the nuances of daily life and the resilience of connections.

Locked

A tormented man struggling with his inner demons, seeks desperately a way to be at peace with himself.

A Missing Scene from Floral Princess: An untold suicide of the last Ming emperor

Reenacting the suicide episode of the last Ming emperor, Chong-zhen from the classic Cantonese Opera Floral Princess, this experimental short film blending Cantonese Opera and modern dance elements reveals the journey of the defeated emperor accompanied by his faithful eunuch, Wang Sing-yan, on their way to the summit of Coal Hill to end their lives. Apart from inviting new perspectives towards their ambiguous queer overtones, it also explores the crossroads of life and death, authority and obedience, love and sacrifice, power and duty, that befall under the traditional patriarchy.

This Robot Is the Only Way I Can Say Goodbye

A woman uses an AI chatbot to try to find closure with someone she lost.

Cookie Logic

A young scientist studies the mechanics of time travel by having a conversation with a group of her future selves.

Triumph and Ruins

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.

Toward a Course Bend All

A night of tortured and solitary sleep, in which fears unfold and a bell tolls.